Week 4: Cain and Abel

Title:  The TemptationCain and Fall of ManAbel

Objective: 

• Review WHY God gave them a commandment
• How was man tempted? (Pride, Lust of the Flesh, Lust of the Eyes)
• God sought repentance from Adam and Eve
• The wages of sin is death
• Prophecies of the Coming of Christ
  

Resources:

• Fr Daoud Lamei on theGenesis Character of Adam4
  • Arabic with English notes below
  • https://notes.morcous.com/books/genesis/page/character-of-adam-07-genesis-1-34-5 
• Fr Tadros Yacoub Malaty - Genesis Commentary
  • https://www.dropbox.com/s/zpat4ujj5q6p7o6/Genesis%20%28Small%29%20-%20Father%20Tadros%20Yacoub%20Malaty.pdf?dl=0 (Short one)
  • https://www.dropbox.com/s/f6o1ujr3kcj7wxm/Genesis%20-%20Father%20Tadros%20Yacoub%20Malaty.pdf?dl=0 (More Details)
• St AthanasiusAmbrose Onon theCain Incarnationand Abel
  
  • https://www.dropbox.com/s/zvn62ojcyyjuub7/On%20the%20Incarnation%rhe1wt71qfzl31w/042%20St%20Ambrose%20-%20St%20Athanasius.20Hexameron%2C%20Paradise%2C%20Cain%20and%20Abel.pdf?dl=0 

Reading:

• Genesis 34

Structure:

• Review Genesis 2:15-17
  • Why did God give a commandment?
  • Free Will
• Read Genesis 3:1-7
  • Satan twists the words of God - God said "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat". The Serpent said "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"
  • Satan tempts with the Pride of Life, the Lust of the Flesh the Lust of the eyes
    • We see it here
    • We see it in the Temptation of Christ on the mountain (Matthew 3)
    • "For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world." (1 John 2:16)
  • Satan lies and is the father of lies
• Read Genesis 3:8-13
  • God is seeking their repentance. He is asking them questions, hoping that they will repent and confess their sin
  • Each one gives an excuse and blames the other
    • Adam blames Eve (i.e. "bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh" a few verses ago)
    • Adam blames God Himself (for giving him Eve)
    • Eve blames the Serpent
  • We, too, blame others when we sin and fall short of God's glory
• Read Genesis 3:14-15
• Read Genesis 3:16
• Read Genesis 3:17-20
• Read Genesis 3:21
• Read Genesis 3:22-24
• Lasting Effects of the Fall of Man
  • All evil and pain and suffering that exists today is a direct effect of the Fall of Man
    • Crime
    • Disease
    • Natural Disaster
  • "For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now." (Romans 8:20-22)
• Redemption from the Fall by the Son of God
  

Key Verse:

• "Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them" (Genesis 3:21)
  

Review questions:

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Homework: